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"Quite a lot – usually a lot more than riders expect. As part of my job as a crash investigator I have to measure the co-efficient of friction (COF) on roads and on a good dry road we would expect a COF of around 0.7 – that’s a ratio of how much sideways force is required to move a block compared to its weight, so on a dry road a 1kg block would require about 7N of force to shove it sideways. If the road is wet, the COF would be about 0.5 and if it was icy you’d get about 0.1."

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